Word: fire-proof
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...house these photographs, which now comprise a 500,000-plate history of the heavens for the last half-century, the fire-proof Astrophysical building was established in Cambridge in 1931. This pictorial library, largest of its kind in the world, has proved an invaluable aid in plotting the future courses of celestial bodies...
...story building, built of fire-proof materials, will be large enough to accommodate 40 children for the morning session and 40 in the afternoon. It will be fully equipped with slides, tri-cycles, drawing boards, toys, and other accoutrements of such institutions, and will be under the direction of six trained teachers and a woman physician...
...Herbarium was created in 1862, when Doctor Asa Gray, who held the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History at Harvard, gave his library and his 200,000 plant specimens to the old Botanical Gardens, with the stipulation that a fire-proof building should be constructed to house the valuable collection...
...right on the spot, Vag made a noble resolution. If ever he made a lot of money--the absurdity of the idea rather appealed to him--he would come back to Harvard and give them a brand new, fire-proof, fireman--proof museum with "I wandered lonely as a could" written across the front in Albanian. And now Vag's only worry is that someone may do this before he gets around...
...This young worthy in a harassed tone cried out that he had been calling the Botanical Garden, the Biological Institute, and the Arnold Arboretum, trying to find out what new construction was going on at the Herbarium. He pointed out that they all denied the construction of any "large fire-proof building" to preserve classified specimens, and in the same breath he wanted to know where we found the news. He was asked in what paper it appeared, and he said it was the issue of that day. After careful perusal of the paper the Herbarium note was indeed found...